Do you want to run competitions and incentives on OneUp to motivate your team and drive performance in specific areas? Here's a little inspiration for you based on incentives commonly run by our clients in Recruitment!
🚀 Leagues
Leagues allow you to set up a competition based on multiple metrics - we suggest choosing 3-5 key metrics to focus on. Participants can compete as individuals or teams and are assigned points based on the activities they have logged. Prizes can be awarded based on the position that a user finishes in the League, or on achieving a points threshold.
Individual vs Individual Leagues
Example: A monthly League based on multiple key metrics, where participants compete as individuals and anyone who achieves over 400 points gets an opportunity to 'spin the wheel'
Simultaneous Leagues for different roles / experience levels
Example: A quarterly League for Senior Consultants and a League for Junior Consultants running alongside each other where the winner of each wins a day of annual leave
Team vs Team League
Example: Contract vs Perm Team League based on multiple key metrics, where the winning team will win a team day out
Top Tip: Want to create a Team League but your team sizes are mismatched? Use the 'averaged teams' option to balance out the points and create an even playing field!
Multiple offices? Office vs Office League
Example: Inter-office League based on key BD metrics, where the winning team will receive £/$ towards their next company social
Top Tip: Get creative! Could you create a League around the Superbowl, the World Cup, or Crufts? Themes will drive engagement!
🎯 Missions
Missions are based on a single metric and are great for collaborative team or company goals, but they can also be used to motivate individual consultants. When creating a Mission, you can add multiple objectives which is a great way to create stretch targets to promote overachievement.
Company Missions
A collaborative goal that the entire company is working towards.
Annual or quarterly revenue Mission
Example: Holiday incentive based on company revenue, with stretch targets for upgrades to hotel and flights
Mission for a specific metric that you want to drive
Example: Jobs added this week for a 4pm finish on Friday, with a stretch target for a 2pm finish
Team Missions
A collaborative goal that an entire team are working towards.
Example: Candidates added in a month by the Resourcing Team for a team lunch, with a stretch target for social activity add-on
Private / Individual Missions
A Mission specific to an individual that only they can see.
Individual Missions are often used for development goals or part of promotion criteria. You can also set up an individual Mission based on how much a consultant would have to bill to receive X commission and therefore reach their personal goal of buying a house, buying a car, going on a dream holiday etc.
Example: Revenue target as part of promotion criteria
Top Tip: Halfway through a goal? You can backdate the start of a Mission!
🏅 Leaderboards
Leaderboards are a great way to rank your team based on their performance on a specific metric. A Performance Leaderboard ranks users based on their activity against a specific metric, whilst a Target Leaderboard ranks users based on their progress towards their target for a specific metric.
Top Billers Leaderboard
Example: Target Leaderboard for total revenue booked across all users
Activity Leaderboard for a specific metric that you want to drive over a period of time
Example: Performance Leaderboard for 1st Interviews booked this month by users in the Perm team
Recurring Incentive ran via a Target Leaderboard
Example: Target Leaderboard for a lunch club incentive based on CVs sent
Longer term incentive ran via a Target Leaderboard
Example: Target Leaderboard for a Holiday Incentive based on individual revenue targets
Top Tip: You can also create Target Leaderboards slides to display on your TV's!
🎉 Celebrate Achievements with Automations
Automate the celebration of achievements, celebrating individuals through a notification appearing on the TV, in the OneUp platform, or in MS Teams.
You could celebrate achievements such as:
When a placement is made
When a specific notable activity is logged (e.g. interview booked or job added)
When a consultant achieves a specific number of an activity within a set time period (e.g. 20 CV's sent in a week)
When a placement fee record is broken
Example: An automation to celebrate when the previous placement fee record of £15,000 is broken.
Top Tip: Configure your TV Flash to include additional information such as the company the placement was made with and the name of the candidate!
🎁 Prize Ideas
🎁 Prize Ideas
There are no rules on the types of prizes you can offer for your incentives; we have seen everything from a pat on the back to a Rolex! If you are in need of inspiration, here are some prize ideas to consider:
Bragging rights
Spin the wheel
Early finish
A day / half a day annual leave
Shopping vouchers
Holiday vouchers
Team lunch
Team social activity
After work drinks
Sweet treats
Tech gadgets
Annual subscription of your choice
Cinema tickets
Spa day for 2
Trip away
Company retreat / holiday
Additional bonus
💡 Top Tips
💡 Top Tips
Make the reward for your first incentive a bit more special - this will increase engagement and get your team excited to drive their activity!
Plan your incentives in advance! Dedicate some time to plan and set up your incentives at the beginning of each month/quarter/year, then leave them to run automatically within OneUp.
Assign an 'incentives champion' per team or office, who is responsible for planning incentives for their team.
Get your team to take it in turns organising a fun incentive - give them a prize budget and let them come up with the goal and prize.
Email out your League standings on a weekly basis to let your team know where they are currently ranked!
Encourage your team to create and share their own Leaderboards - if a consultant is having a particularly good week on interviews arrange for example, they can create a Leaderboard and send it out to the team for a humble brag.
Add your Missions, Leagues and Leaderboards to OneUp dashboards and TV's to increase their impact.
If you create a great League which you’d like to run on a regular basis, you can duplicate the original to run the incentive again without having to set it up from scratch.
You don't have to use the teams that are already set up on your platform in your incentives - why not use the Squad function to mix things up and group people from different teams/offices together in a fun incentive to encourage cross collaboration?
You can Track League Points in your weekly activity reports alongside key metrics
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